The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains ...

A new publication from WWF, the conservation organization, warns that the main food source for Antarctic blue whales, krill, is under threat due to melting polar ice, linked to climate change. Bonn, ...

Blue whales — the largest animals on Earth — aren't singing as much anymore, and that's got scientists concerned. A study published in PLOS analyzing six years’ worth of acoustic data collected from ...

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales — species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century, ...

“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” ...

Whales may be known as gentle giants, but they still have a looming presence as the world’s loudest and largest animals. The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and stretches to 98 ...

Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue ...